Stanford HAI
In plain wordsAn artificial intelligence institute at Stanford University that funds research, advises policymakers and publishes the AI Index, a widely cited yearly report on the state of AI.
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, an interdisciplinary center that funds and convenes work across the university on AI and its social effects and carries that work to policymakers. It publishes the annual AI Index, a widely cited compendium of data on AI research output, investment, compute, model performance, regulation and public opinion. Its Center for Research on Foundation Models introduced the term foundation modelfoundation model, n.: A very large AI model, built once at great cost from vast amounts of text, images or code gathered mostly from the internet, that many products then reuse as their starting point, from chatbots to coding tools. in a 2021 report, built the HELMHELM, prop. n.: A large, open testing framework from Stanford that grades many language models on many kinds of tasks and qualities — not only accuracy but also fairness, toxicity and efficiency. evaluation framework (2022) and created the Foundation Model Transparency Index (2023), which scores developers' disclosure practices. HAI runs policy programs for legislators and campaigned for a US National AI Research ResourceNational AI Research Resource, prop. n.: A US program to give university researchers, students and small companies shared access to the costly computers, data and AI models that are otherwise mostly available to big technology firms. to give academic researchers access to compute and data. Its 2019 launch drew criticism over the lack of diversity among its initially announced faculty.
The AI Index chart on training costs ended up in half the slide decks at the summit.
Origin
Launched in March 2019 with computer scientist Fei-Fei LiFei-Fei Li, prop. n.: A Chinese-American computer scientist whose ImageNet project, millions of hand-labeled photos, gave deep learning the proving ground that launched its boom; she now champions 'human-centered' AI. and philosopher and former Stanford provost John Etchemendy as founding co-directors. The AI Index began in 2017 as an offshoot of Stanford's One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence and later moved to HAI.
Related
- foundation modelfoundation model, n.: A very large AI model, built once at great cost from vast amounts of text, images or code gathered mostly from the internet, that many products then reuse as their starting point, from chatbots to coding tools.
- HELMHELM, prop. n.: A large, open testing framework from Stanford that grades many language models on many kinds of tasks and qualities — not only accuracy but also fairness, toxicity and efficiency.
- Fei-Fei LiFei-Fei Li, prop. n.: A Chinese-American computer scientist whose ImageNet project, millions of hand-labeled photos, gave deep learning the proving ground that launched its boom; she now champions 'human-centered' AI.
- National AI Research ResourceNational AI Research Resource, prop. n.: A US program to give university researchers, students and small companies shared access to the costly computers, data and AI models that are otherwise mostly available to big technology firms.
- Epoch AIEpoch AI, prop. n.: A research nonprofit that gathers data on how fast AI is advancing — the computing power, data and money behind it — and publishes forecasts and difficult tests for AI.
Sources
- Bommasani, R. et al. (2021). On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models. Stanford CRFM / arXiv.